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United States | 5' 25" | Archive / Collection: ZKM Videosammlung, Karlsruhe
 

 Martha Rosler
«Semiotics of the Kitchen»

From A to Z, Rosler «shows and tells» the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai-like than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet with a fork and knife in the air, is a rebel gesture, punching through the «system of harnessed subjectivity» from the inside out.

 

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